Post photos of your systems/rooms here! (Part 15)

Now that, I like

 

Here is my lounge room :








B&W CM5 front left and right speakers
B&W 685 centre & rears
Oppo UDP-203 4K bluray player
Onkyo TX-SR805 receiver
Sony 75 inch 4K TV
All music played via ROON

You can see the acoustic panel I made with the help of my dad on the wall behind the couch. Not a high end system by any means but I love it !!

EDIT : had trouble with the image posting so you'll have to click the links.... any help appreciated on how show them in my post...... Thanks

 

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not resolving. A waste of time.

 

I kept seeing so many rooms on this site with lava lamps. I finally broke down and bought one.
Is it me or are lava lamps nowhere near as good as they used to be.
I returned the first one and the second one just doesn't seem to flow like I remember from a child.

 

Be patient young padowan. They take a while to warm up. That is part of the fun. Are you in the proper frame of mine to enjoy a lava lamp?

Also, be careful saying negative things about lava lamps, lest you be banished from Audiophilia.

 

Don’t know, my grandmother gave me mine before she passed and she had it since the sixties. Doesn’t get better than that...for me
Glass is thicker than new ones for sure.

 

Whiter than my a$$... LOL

 

Very tasteful. Love the art, especially the vase and sculpture by the tv. Bought a cool piece last weekend. Love that stuff

 

Lava lamps made in the US are done under a license. The quality is marginal vs the UK versions.

 

My main music center is an early 1980's Mitsubishi X-11 System with a Grado Black Cartridge and a pair of Behringer Truth B2030P speakers. It's connected to an ancient Dell Optiplex 740 computer for listening from on-line or making occasional needle-drops (using Windows XP and Soundforge 4.5!) It faces a comfy recliner on the opposite side of the room. Yes, this is the exact same rig I have posted in the budget vinyl forum.

 

My lamp sits like this most of the time. Been running it for several days. Once in a great while one big blob breaks off and goes up and comes back down. I've never seen multiple blobs.
My grandmother had one where there were always several blobs in motion.

 

Not only are lava lamps mandatory for your system room but they actually have mystical powers that soothes the nerves and makes everything sound better! One is good but two in lava lamp stereo is phenomenal.
And yeah, the quality these days is schlock at best. My first one had cloudy liquid and wax stains on the inside of the glass. Returned it and the next one had some kind of coil spring in the wax and would not flow the lava. Finally smartened up and opened the boxes at the store until I found a good one and it flows like a lava river- quite entertaining to watch the shapes and cell structure divides.

 

Quite a system! Glad you are happy but I won't be shopping for any Cornwalls any time soon

 

We have seven lava lamps and most of ours ceased to blob but then i went and purchase the next higher watt bulb and now they all work as intended. Heat is your friend with the wax.

 

OK. Someone needs to post a link to a good, functioning lava lamp that we can all trust to perform as expected!

Someone who "knows a guy".

 

Your wish is my command. The link to Mathmos in the UK is what you are seeking. They are the best damned lava lamps in the land these days - and the certified original.

Now, if anyone has the clout to get them to export them to the U.S., I'd sure appreciate it if you would step up and get it done!

 

They don't ship to the US? Maybe eBay?

At least I know the brand to look for. Thank you.

 

They should package one with every Rega, Creek, KEF, Chord, Roksan, Naim, Arcam, Sonneteer, Exposure, Linn, etc boxes that SHF member buy. 'Tis a fair cop. Bunch of pillocks.

 

There is a Mathmos USA site but it ask you to enter your email for notification when they start shipping to US and Canada .

 

We have six lava lamps — three vintage, three modern — and all work great. Regular use seems to help.

 

A lava lamp company should make some lava lamps in the shape in classic tubes. I'd buy a lava lamp that has its glass in the shape of a classic WE 300B tube, or any other classic tube shape, in a heartbeat.

 

Yes!!

 

I have a green vinyl Abbey Road, too. Made in France.

 

Are those legit or bootleg?

 

Legit: The Beatles - Abbey Road